Reforms agenda

I thank President Soeharto for showing his political will to conduct political reform. What is required now is the courage to make choices of what is to be reformed, which would be given priority.

The House of Representatives will have to decide the choices and set priorities based on inputs received from within the House, the government and from society. The reforms should be done in the spirit of togetherness and in good faith, for the benefit of the nation, not for a certain group.

In conducting the reforms the following points should be strongly considered:

* Everybody must highly uphold honesty and trustfulness and discipline.

* Trickery, manipulation, corruption, collusion, nepotism and cronyism must be uprooted.

* People must be kept well-informed of the progress of reforms.

* Law must be strictly upheld.

* People's economic situation must be based on the family principle which benefit the whole nation instead of the privileged few.

* A Top-down process must be changed into a bottom-up process.

* Good business ethics must control all business deals.

To guarantee the success of the much-desired reforms, President Soeharto himself will have to supervise the process of reforms, and push it as and when necessary. It should be fully understood that the reforms are meant to correct and straighten out all mistakes and weaknesses we have been living with for the past three decades. Only successful reforms will be able to restore the people's and international confidences.

H.W. PIENANDORO

Bogor, West Java